True North Radio This Week

Monday: COL. GORDON CUCULLU is the author of Separated at Birth: How North Korea Became the Evil Twin. Currently a farmer in upstate NY, a columnist for Tech Central Station, FrontpageMagazine, and California Republic, Gordon is a military analyst for FoxNews, New York City’s WABC-TV and WABC-radio, Linda Chavez’s radio show, and many other radio and television shows around the country.

In Vietnam, Gordon was a member of the highly classified Studies and Observation Group that conducted top-secret reconnaissance missions into Laos, Cambodia and denied areas of Vietnam. For his valor, he was awarded the BRONZE STAR.

After Vietnam, Gordon went on to become the first American to attend a mid-level Korean officer’s school. He was a charter member of a new Korean-US Combined Forces Command. From Korea, Gordon was assigned to the Pentagon, where he planned and managed military assistance to Central American countries in a volatile period. His last active duty assignment was as an exchange officer to the State Department, where he was a political-military advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia Pacific Affairs, a position then held by Paul Wolfowitz. Among Gordon’s many service awards are the Defense Superior Service Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal (2), Joint Services Commendation Medal, Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, and the US Presidential Unit Commendation.

We’ll be discussing, “THE 9/11 COVERUP COMMISSION” -- the essay on ABLE DANGER Gordon co-authored with Ben Johnson for FrontPageMagazine.

Tuesday: Our discussion of “THE 9/11 COVERUP COMMISSION” continues, with Gordon’s co-author, BEN JOHNSON, another of our favorite guests here at TRUE NORTH. Ben is Managing Editor of FrontPage Magazine and the author of the book 57 VARIETIES OF RADICAL CAUSES: TERESA HEINZ KERRY’S CHARITABLE GIVING.

Wednesday: GEORGE NEUMAYR, contributing editor of The American Spectator, returns to TRUE NORTH. George’s hard-hitting, incisive analyses of the words and deeds of Senator Patrick Leahy are a refreshing change from the puff pieces offered up by Vermont’s relentlessly sycophantic mainstream media. Here’s a sample, from “Torturing Alberto”, from The American Spectator (1/06/05):

Damaging the Constitution is the official policy of Democrats like Leahy. It falls under their understanding of the Constitution as a "living" document, which just means a dead document -- a blank piece of paper on which they seek to scribble every fad and trend and invented right that appeals to them at the moment.

You can read the rest of this fine essay here.

Those who share my concern about the callousness concerning disabled children of the Right-to-Kill crowd and of Utilitarian “ethicists” like Peter Singer will especially appreciate George’s extraordinary essay, “The Humane Holocaust.” Here are some excerpts:

“In the humane holocaust, murdering undesirable unborn babies at the beginning of life, the elderly at the end of it, and the disabled in between, forms the final solution in the quest for the perfect, burden-free society. In the humane holocaust, one generation's crimes become another generation's compassion. . . . Evil is always done under the appearance of goodness. But evil renamed is still evil. And injustice to which our society has manipulated the aged and disabled into consenting is still unjust. If a man consents to slavery, does slavery cease to be wrong? If patients don't mind violations against the Hippocratic Oath, are doctors free to flout it? The engineers of the humane holocaust uses this lie of consent as moral absolution of evil, but if it can't collect the lie from its victims (as in the case of abortion where no killed child gives consent) it keeps churning anyways.

Terri Schiavo is its latest victim. May she find in God the real compassion the vile imposter gods among us denied her.

This powerful essay appears, in its entirety, is here.

Thursday: BILL SAYRE, formerly with the U.S. Federal Reserve, now a Member of the Board of Directors of Associated Industries of Vermont; of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce; and of the Vermont Forest Products Association. A student of Milton Friedman's (among other Nobel Laureates), Bill received his MBA in economics/finance from the University of Chicago. We’ll be discussing what’s top-of-the-fold in the headlines this week.

Friday: TRUE NORTH regular JIM BEERS wasn’t due to be back on the show for another week, but given Friday’s ruling by a federal judge mandating the introduction of gray wolves into Vermont—where they may never have lived at all—I knew we needed Jim’s informed perspective on this controversy. Read “Wolf Restoration Ordered in Vermont,” from Saturday’s Free Press.

JIM BEERS, who has many fans among the listeners of True North, had a 30-year career with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, where he served as Chief of Operations for the National Wildlife Refuge System. A Congressional Fellow in Washington, D.C., Jim was the wildlife biologist in the National Wildlife Refuge System’s Central Office. His career ended when, during the Clinton Administration, Jim blew the whistle on $45 million of government-agency abuses, committed by government agencies in collusion with animal rights and environmental organizations. (You can read his Congressional testimony online.) Jim was rewarded for doing his job by having all work assignments taken from him, and being sent home. After nine months, Jim accepted a settlement and began a new career, as one of America’s most eloquent advocates of property rights. National audiences read him at www.allianceforamerica.org. Here in Vermont, you can read Jim’s columns in print, in one of my favorite magazines, Outdoors Magazine.